Ok. If you know me, you know I do some production. When I say "some" I mean I've been making beats since high school and I'm pretty decent at it. I caught this youtube video on The Exactly. It's DJ PREMIER talking with Pharrell Williams, two iconic hip hop producers; old schol and new school. If you're unaware, or just have a really low hip hop IQ, DJ Premier is arguably the best hip hop producer of all time and THE creator of the east coast boom bap sound that drove hip hop in the early 90's. It's good stuff.
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Now playing: Gang Starr - Above The Clouds
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Thursday, September 4, 2008
Swagger... Get Some.
This is hilarious. Old Spice actually has a deodorant called "Swagger"
That's great.
But this one is greatness... The mighty Brian Urlacher larping.
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Now playing: The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
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That's great.
But this one is greatness... The mighty Brian Urlacher larping.
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Now playing: The Notorious B.I.G. - Hypnotize
via FoxyTunes
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
The Dopeness from Google
Take a good look at the picture below. It's a screenshot of two of Google's newest, biggest, baddest products. I downloaded and installed the beta version of Google's new Chrome web browser. As you can see, it's pretty sleek and streamlined. It frees up a large amount of real estate by doing away with the toolbar and the other screen gobbling features that might be seen as frivolous. The url field also serves as the search field which is pretty convenient. I've been using Firefox 3 as my go-to browser. Having worked(played) with Chrome for a couple days now, I think I'll stay with Firefox for now. The main reason is that I'd miss all the wonderful add-ons and extensions that I have installed on my Firefox browser(s). Yes, I not only run Firefox on every computer I use, I also sync my bookmarks in Firefox which boosts productivity wonderfully.
As you can see in the pic, I also downloaded Google's Picasa 3 yesterday. I couldn't wait to get home from work today to play with... I mean... evaluate it. I must say, I am thoroughly impressed with this new iteration of Google's image editing suite. It is by far the easiest way to organize, view, edit, upload, share, and make cool stuff with your digital photos. I tried out the "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature, which adjusts the settings for each picture to automatically make each photo look amazing. These all in one editing features usually suck. I was quite impressed with how well pictures turned out after one simple click.
One of the coolest new features of Picasa is pictured in the screenshot. You can opt to have Picasa scan your entire library of uploaded photos for faces. Yes, it scans for faces. Once it's scanned all the photos in your web albums, it presents similar faces for you to tag. For example, I uploaded an album of pictures that were taken while I was out digging up fossils in Montana with my buddy Marc and a bunch of other science teachers and scientists. Picasa went through my pictures and picked out Marc's face from each picture. It then allowed me to tell it to whom that face belongs. The impressive part of all that is that it picked out his face whether he had dark shades on or sunglasses. Pretty neat.
Picasa even picked out paleontologist Paul Sereno's face in a photo I took of a tv screen at the Children's Museum that was playing a video of him talking about their exhibit.
Extremely impressive.
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Now playing: Lupe Fiasco - The Coolest
via FoxyTunes
As you can see in the pic, I also downloaded Google's Picasa 3 yesterday. I couldn't wait to get home from work today to play with... I mean... evaluate it. I must say, I am thoroughly impressed with this new iteration of Google's image editing suite. It is by far the easiest way to organize, view, edit, upload, share, and make cool stuff with your digital photos. I tried out the "I'm Feeling Lucky" feature, which adjusts the settings for each picture to automatically make each photo look amazing. These all in one editing features usually suck. I was quite impressed with how well pictures turned out after one simple click.
One of the coolest new features of Picasa is pictured in the screenshot. You can opt to have Picasa scan your entire library of uploaded photos for faces. Yes, it scans for faces. Once it's scanned all the photos in your web albums, it presents similar faces for you to tag. For example, I uploaded an album of pictures that were taken while I was out digging up fossils in Montana with my buddy Marc and a bunch of other science teachers and scientists. Picasa went through my pictures and picked out Marc's face from each picture. It then allowed me to tell it to whom that face belongs. The impressive part of all that is that it picked out his face whether he had dark shades on or sunglasses. Pretty neat.
Picasa even picked out paleontologist Paul Sereno's face in a photo I took of a tv screen at the Children's Museum that was playing a video of him talking about their exhibit.
Extremely impressive.
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Now playing: Lupe Fiasco - The Coolest
via FoxyTunes
Saturday, August 30, 2008
Ocho Psycho
There probably isn't anyone in the NFL who grandstands more than Chad Johnson. Duh. We know this... man. But this has taken it to a new level. The Bengals receiver was fined $5000 last season for putting the words "Ocho Cinco" over his name on the back of his jersey. Now he's made it official.
Chad Johnson has legally changed his last name to Ocho Cinco. So now, not only can the NFL not fine him again for having Ocho Cinco over his name, but they'll HAVE TO put it there. HAHA. Greatness. Hi said he doesn't have a reason for doing it, but then again he never has a reason. Does he?
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Now playing: Jay-Z - I Know
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Chad Johnson has legally changed his last name to Ocho Cinco. So now, not only can the NFL not fine him again for having Ocho Cinco over his name, but they'll HAVE TO put it there. HAHA. Greatness. Hi said he doesn't have a reason for doing it, but then again he never has a reason. Does he?
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Now playing: Jay-Z - I Know
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Wednesday, August 27, 2008
From the mouths of children...
This was a conversation I just had at 8:30 in the morning.
Kristian (one of my students): ...and drive my car. Drive me crazy. Wherever you goin', baby girl just take me...
Me: Kristian! I told you before about singing Lil Wayne songs at school.
Kristian: But that's not even his song. It's a Jay-Z song.
Me: I don't care. Lil Wayne is on it. You can't sing it.
Kristian: MAN! That aint fair. He make every song!!!
HAHAHAHA!!! Weezy has taken over the world. He's brainwashing my children!
Tuesday, August 26, 2008
M-Teezy's New Blog is the the bomb like...
...Tick. Tick.
Yo. So my main man Mike, The Golden Child has just sprung a new blog on the masses and it's super fresh. Like seriously. If you don't already know, aside from being my homie, the RayBan man is working on putting his stamp on the rap game. So be on the look out for new music from the Double Up camp. Keep an ear out for Nature Boy. He's a beast.
So far his blog is looking pretty dope. I guess I'm gonna have to stop playin and step my blog game up.
Peep it!
M-Teezy's Blog
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